State · 626 – 539 BCE
Neo-Babylonian Empire
A state of 626 – 539 BCE — 87 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It followed Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was followed by Achaemenid Empire. The atlas records 4 things within it — wars and battles 4. Its line of rulers holds 3 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 87 years
- 626 BCE – 539 BCE
- Rulers
- 3
- the King of Sumer and Akkad
- Most ground
- 703,600 km²
- in 600 BCE
- Within it
- 4
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Neo-Assyrian Empire · follows · 911 – 609 BCE
After it
- Achaemenid Empire · followed by · 550 – 330 BCE
Rulers
The line of King of Sumer and Akkad.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|
3 rulers, 0 with terms dated as terms. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
703,600 km² in 596 BCE, 569,600 km² in 539 BCE; at its largest 703,600 km² in 596 BCE. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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emblem, undatedShamash-sun-symbol (3 rays) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · AnonMoos modified by FOX 52
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
600 BCE – 501 BCE4 rows · 4 wars and battles
- Siege of Jerusalem · battle · 589 – 587 BCE
- Siege of Jerusalem · battle · 597 BCE
- Fall of Babylon · battle · 539 BCE
- Battle of Opis · battle · 539 BCE
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood87 years
stood longer than 44% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held703,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 79% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record3
has more rulers on record than 48% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 636 BCE – 529 BCE, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 600 BCE, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q624887 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.